OMG!! linux vs windows again? This topic knows no end, does it?
The problem with linux users are they are very poorly informed about Windows. Yes, they are carrying on a totally wrong belief that windows is vulnerable. People just don't know how to use windows so they get BSODs and virus and all. I m running XP+SP2 with auto updates OFF, autopatcher installed till
sep 2005, thats more than 1 yr old. An AV and a firewall- thats all. No anti spywares nothing. On the net, I browse around the most notoriously infected sites like cracks and hacking sites but still I have not got a single virus or spyware. Why? because I know how to use my computer.
All linux supporters are misinformed. They thing windows means BSODS, virus and spywares. Totally wrong!! Like I said, I have yet to see a BSOD on my XP machine.
Does that mean that linux users are dumb? if they get infected with viruses and spywares the moment they use XP, then it seems like it.
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Originally Posted by tech_your_future
Yeah man I am really missing those viruses, crashed applications. Wasting of my time and resources running anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-what not. I also miss being on constant guard to see if the site I am visiting doesn't have malware, the viruses in my mailbox don't auto-execute. I also miss those frustrating days when you had no clue how to troubleshoot if windows doesn't detect my hardware. And I miss those dreaded days of using IE.
If so then why do more websites with mission critical performance choose Open Source OS'es over Windows? Your analogy is too flawed.
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Nope, servers run linux because they are very light on system resources, can be run for days without restart and don't even need a GUI or may be even a monitor to function. I agree windows has got to improve a lot on server side, but for home computing there is nothing like windows.
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And besides I saw BSOD on 4 computers in a nearby cyber cafe some 2-3 months back. They were running XP-SP2.
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Duh!! why give examples of PCs on a cybercafe? they are the most worst maintained PCs on the world.